The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-12
Farm and Garden Notes.

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Farm and Garden Notes.
Chickens should always, if possible, be
cooped near grass.
Try boiled sweet milk for chickens af-
fectcd with diarrhma.
Hens will sometimes lay several eggs
after beginning to sit.
Every farmer needs a roller. A plank
drag and pulvorizcr is also useful
implement
Manure, pruning knives, attention and
sunshine are recommended as the best
helps to rose culture.
The best remedy for the current borer
is careful cutting away and burning of
all infected branches.
Downy mildew causes o brown or gray
rot. In Wisconsin the greatest loss from
rot is due to this fungus.
Paper put on in May and tarred with
tar gas or printers ink will keep out the
apple-borer, and last three years.
The good results of tile drainage are
not all manifest in wet weather. 1t is
equally beneficial in time of drought.
/ Unslackcd lime, scattered about sta
bles and other places where flcas arc
| likely to resort, has tendency to re-
move the pests.
| An elevated tree near building may
save the latter from a disastrous stroke
of lightning. A good rod, paid for
when it is put up is better, however.
Fowls do best when allowed to roam at
large in field and orchard, but when it is
] oh 60 eI,,
be supplied with meat scraps, butchers
etc.
| The orchard, with its fruit and shade,
is good place for chicks as well as ma
tured fowls, all the better if the ground
between the trees is even partially culti-
waited.
Attention to little things helps along
with greater. 1t does not pay, for ex-
ample, to use heavy, dull hoes, or
scythes, cultivators or reapers out of
order
The cultivation of sunfiowers is on the
increase. The object is three-fold-or-
naments, sanitary effects and food for
poultry, to which is added in some local
tiles substitute for fuel
Orchard grass Is especially valuable,
says contemporary, because it makes
the earliest and latest pasture, and once
well established and then well treated, it
will outlast the farmers lifetime.
Proper trimming is essential to success
in all fruit growing. An overburden of
limbs and foliage will exhaust natures
storehouse and cause the tree to be-
come impaired in health and defective in
fruit.
DIR. Vincent, of Deckerville, Mich,
says pear trees on light, sandy soil need
a wagon n-load of clay or heavy soil put un.
der each tree at the time of setting. In
this respect, he adds, pears differ from
other fruit.
Potash applied to roots of grape-vines
passes to the vine, to the leaves, then to
the twigs, TO arrive at last at the fruit, of
which it favOrs the development. Its
migration is comparable to that of the
nitrogenized elements and phosphates.
An excellent egg producing food is one
part corn meal, two parts bran, two parts
ground oats, one part ground meal, and
one part middlings, to which may be
added small portion of bone meal and
salt scald it and feed early in the morn
ing.
caused by eating wet clover, thus Drop
six drops of colocynth on a teaspoonful
Of pulverized sugar for horse or COW,
place it well back on the tongue, and if
not relieved repeat the dose in twenty
minutes. 1t never fails to cure, he says.
Speaking of fattening hogs, w. B. E.,
of Hutchinson, Kansas, says: 81 am
satisfied l can fatten hogs in two-thrds
the time where corn is soaked, and |
claim full twenty-five per cent. is saved
in feed, as the same amount will contrib
ute more to growth and fat than dry
corn. Soaked corn should be used from
February till dry corn comes in.
Practical and successful breeders claim
that constant supply of salt for swine
is a safe preventive of diseases, one that
can be counted on with degree of GER
tainty that by its constant use the sys-
tenn is made strong to ward off disease !;
that cholera does not start in herds re-
ceiving this care that these herds often
escape when all others around them are
destroyed.
Old fruit and forest trees can be reno
vated by digging trench four feet in
width and three feet deep around the
tree. A ball of earth is left directly
around the trunk of the tree, containing
the main roots. In this trench put soil,
with liberal allowances of manure, re-
fuse from blacksmith's forge and some
potash, and have them all well mixed
together The effect will be to clothe
the tree with the luXuriance and vigor
of a young tree.